The Earth's Shifting Crust by Charles Hapgood - wire of information

ocean basins, origin unexplained,
12, i45ff; alleged permanence,
1506:. See also beaches, continents
(sunken), foundering, os-
cillation of ocean bottoms, sea
bottoms, "sea mounts"
Ohio glaciation, 48, 273; evidence
for displacement, 379-80
Old Red Sandstone formation, a
fossil desert, 68
Oligocene, 107
Ordovician, 75
orogenic uplifts, 120
oscillation, rhythmic, of ocean bot-
toms, 142, 148
oscillation of ice sheets, 48, 57, 165,
204ff. See also volcanic dust,
volcanism
Oxygen- 18 method, 294
Paleocene, 64
palm
trees, 320
parallelogram of forces, used in
computing centrifugal effect and
its tangential component, 343-
44
Paricutin, 80; related to present
beginning of displacement, 384
peat bogs, 64
peccaries, 262, 335
peneplains, and isostatic adjustment,
"Pennsylvanian" period (Carbon-
iferous), 312
periodicity, of displacements, 85-
86, 277, 284, 38off; of mountain
building, 84-86; accounted for
by displacements, 85-86
permafrost, 223, 241, 244, 256
Permian, 63, 72, 30
Permo-Carboniferous, 68, 71, 311;
coal deposits, 71
Peter the Great, 244
pines, 65
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 435
Piri Reis maps, confirming recent
deglaciation of Antarctica, 52n.
pivot points in a displacement, 15.
See also triaxial deformation of
earth
plane trees, 65
planetesimal hypothesis, 11
planetoids,
collision with earth a
possible cause of displacements
of crust, 32
plasticity, of solids under pressure,
190-91
plateau basalts, 119, 153, 188
Pleistocene, 70, 107, 131, 196, 208,
218, 227, 235, 267-68, 277, 309,
335; accepted chronology of glaciations
weak, 278-83; ended
catastrophically, 267-69; European
glaciations not contemporary
with American, *8off; fifth
glaciation identified, 278, 282;
ice sheets not fully compensated
to date, 162
plication, 83, 89
Pliocene, 69, 235, 314
"pluvial" periods, 39
poles, alleged immobility of, as
example of hardening of the
categories, 25, 31, 61, 386; as
example of circular reasoning,
65-66; and gyroscopic effect of
earth's rotation, 24 (see also
equatorial bulge); causes of apparent
shift, 24ff (and see displacements);
in Alaska, Ch. IX;
in Greenland, Ch. IX passim;
that location accounting for
New York temperate-zone fauna
enclosed in ice sheet, 289;
method for locating earlier posi-
tions, 274ff; position of, 13; posi-
tion after next displacement,
386; shifts a necessary hypoth-
esis, 3off, 386-87; stability of,